intervary

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ vary

Verb

intervary (third-person singular simple present intervaries, present participle intervarying, simple past and past participle intervaried)

1. (obsolete) To alter or vary between; to change.
   • 1827, James Rush, The Philosophy of the Human Voice:

     we may regard half the words of language as emphatic : since they are perpetually inter-varying by slight differences in force , and quantity

   • 1998, Alan A. Jones, Towards a lexicogrammar of Mekeo: an Austronesian language of West Central Papua:

     The /w/ in NWMek represents a weak variety of [w] pronounced with spread lips, freely intervarying with a true vowel [o].

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “intervary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)